Washington Post CEO and Exec Editor Used Stolen Phone Records While at Sunday Times, Former Colleagues Say

The Washington Post’s new CEO Will Lewis has another scandal on his hands, this time being accused of using stolen phone records to assign stories while business editor at The Sunday Times in London.

Former Sunday Times reporter Peter Koenig said Friday that his then-editor Lewis once assigned him a story that relied on phone records that were obtained by hacking, according to a New York Times report Saturday.

“His ambition outran his ethics,” Koenig, who otherwise remembered Lewis as one of his finest editors, said of his former colleague. Lewis assigned Koenig the story in 2004. A U.K. businessman additionally said that his records had been stolen while being written about in the article.